Events from the year 1999 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal government
:Newt Gingrich (R-Georgia) (until January 3)
:Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois) (starting January 6)
State governments
Events
January
- January 1 – DIY Network, a spinoff of Home and Garden Television, is launched.
- January 2 – A snowstorm leaves of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and in Chicago, Illinois, killing 68.
- January 6 – Dennis Hastert becomes Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
- January 7 – The Senate trial in the impeachment of President Bill Clinton begins. He had been impeached by the House of Representatives on December 19.
- January 14âÂÂ17 – The Winter X Games take place in Crested Butte.
- January 21 – In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over of cocaine aboard, headed for Houston, Texas.
- January 22 – An F3 tornado strikes downtown Clarksville, Tennessee, destroying and heavily damaging more than 500 buildings, including the historic Montgomery County Courthouse, and nationally registered Trinity Episcopal Church and Madison Street United Methodist Church.
- January 31
- The Denver Broncos defeat the Atlanta Falcons 34âÂÂ19 in Super Bowl XXXIII at Pro Player Stadium in Miami.
- The adult animated sitcom Family Guy debuts on the Fox network after Super Bowl XXXIII.
February
- February 1 – The Disney Channel Preschool Block is rebranded as Playhouse Disney.
- February 2 – Noggin is launched.
- February 4
- Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city.
- The New Carissa runs aground near Coos Bay, Oregon.
- February 12 – Impeachment of Bill Clinton: President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the Senate. On the charge of perjury, 45 senators, all Republicans, voted to convict, while 55 senators, including ten Republicans and all 45 Democrats, voted for acquittal. On the charge of obstruction of justice, the vote split 50-50, with five Republicans joining all 45 Democrats voting for acquittal. Both votes fell short of the two-thirds majority (67 votes) needed for conviction.
- February 15
- Rapper Big L is shot to death.
- Windows Refund Day: People protest Microsoft for refusing to refund open source Linux users for the unused Windows licenses that came with their computers.
- February 19 – President Bill Clinton issues a posthumous pardon for U.S. Army Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper.
- February 23 – White supremacist John William King is found guilty of kidnapping and murdering African American James Byrd Jr. by dragging him behind a truck for 2 miles (3 km).
- February 24 – LaGrand case: The state of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national involved in an armed robbery that led to a death. Karl's brother Walter is executed a week later, in spite of Germany's legal action in the International Court of Justice to attempt to save him.
March
- March 2 – The new Mandalay Bay hotel and casino opens on the Las Vegas Strip.
- March 3 – Walter LaGrand is executed in the gas chamber in Arizona.
- March 4 – In a military court, United States Marine Corps Captain Richard J. Ashby is acquitted of the charge of reckless flying which resulted in the deaths of 20 skiers in the Italian Alps, when his low-flying jet hit a gondola cable.
- March 8 – The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.
- March 11 – Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
- March 17 – The Roth IRA is introduced by U.S. Senator William V. Roth Jr.
- March 20 – Legoland California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California.
- March 21 – The 71st Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, with John Madden's Shakespeare in Love winning seven awards out of 13 nominations, including Best Picture. Steven Spielberg wins his second Best Director award for Saving Private Ryan. The telecast garners over 45.5 million viewers.
- March 25 – Enron energy traders allegedly route 2,900 megawatts of electricity destined for California to the town of Silver Peak, Nevada, population 200.
- March 26 – A Michigan jury finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
- March 27 – Kosovo War: A U.S. F-117 Nighthawk is shot down by Serbian forces.
- March 28
- The World Wrestling Federation holds WrestleMania XV at the First Union Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- The science-fiction adult animated sitcom Futurama debuts on Fox.
- March 29 – For the first time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark, at 10,006.78.
- March 31 – The Matrix is released in theaters.
April
- April 1 – Air China Flight 9018, a Boeing 747, taxis onto an active runway at O'Hare International Airport during the takeoff of Korean Air Flight 36, another Boeing 747, nearly resulting in a crash. Flight 36 averted a collision by taking off early and missing the Air China aircraft by 75 feet. There were 8 people on the Air China cargo plane and 379 on the Korean Air flight.
- April 5 – In Laramie, Wyoming, Russell Henderson pleads guilty to kidnapping and felony murder, in order to avoid a possible death penalty conviction for the killing of Matthew Shepard.
- April 7 – The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
- April 8 – Bill Gates' personal fortune exceeds US$100 billion, thanks to the increased value of Microsoft stock.
- April 12 – U.S. President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.
- April 15 – Ron Williamson and Dennis Fritz are exonerated of the rape and murder of Debbie Carter and released from prison. Both had spent 11 years in prison, with Williamson on death row, and having come within five days of execution.
- April 20 – Columbine High School massacre: Two Littleton, Colorado teenagers open fire on their teachers and classmates, killing 12 students and one teacher, and then themselves. It would be the deadliest shooting at a high school in U.S. history at the time. The shooting sparks debate on school bullying, gun control and violence in the media.
- April 23 – 1999 Major League Baseball season: Fernando TatÃÂs of the St. Louis Cardinals hits two grand slams in one inning, becoming the first and only player in MLB history to do so.
- April 28 – Bausch & Lomb announces its intent to sell Ray-Ban to the Italian eyewear conglomerate Luxottica.
May
June
July
- July 2
- Benjamin Nathaniel Smith begins a three-day killing spree targeting racial and ethnic minorities in Illinois and Indiana, which ends in Smith's suicide.
- Lawrence Summers is sworn in as the new Secretary of Treasury, succeeding Robert Rubin.
- July 5–6 – U.S. Army Pfc. Barry Winchell is bludgeoned in his sleep at Fort Campbell, Kentucky by fellow soldiers; he dies the next day from his injuries.
- July 8 – A major flash flood in Las Vegas swamps hundreds of cars, smashes mobile homes and kills two people.
- July 10 – U.S. soccer player Brandi Chastain scores the game winning penalty kick against China in the FIFA Women's World Cup.
- July 14 – Big Blue Crane collapses while constructing Miller Park killing three workers.
- July 16 – Off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, a plane piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr. crashes, killing him and his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette.
- July 20 – Mercury program: Liberty Bell 7 is raised from the Atlantic Ocean.
- July 22 – The first version of MSN Messenger is released by Microsoft.
- July 23âÂÂ25 – The Woodstock '99 festival is held in New York.
- July 25 – Lance Armstrong wins his first Tour de France.
- July 26 – The last Checker taxi cab is retired in New York City and auctioned off for approximately $135,000.
- July 29
- 1999 Atlanta day trading firm shootings: Mark Orrin Barton kills his family. He then goes on a murder spree at the trading firm he worked at, killing a total of 12 people in Atlanta, Georgia. He later committed suicide at a gas station when cornered by police.
- NASA intentionally crashes the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the lunar surface.
August
September
October
November
December
- December – The unemployment rate drops to 4%, the lowest level since January 1970.
- December 3 – NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander, moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
- December 7 – The Recording Industry Association of America files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing client, alleging copyright infringement.
- December 16 – Walt Disney Pictures' 38th feature film, Fantasia 2000, a sequel to 1940's Fantasia, premieres at Carnegie Hall, with an IMAX release on New Years Day 2000 and a general theatrical release later in June.
- December 18 – NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform, carrying 5 Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
- December 31 – The U.S. turns over complete administration of the Panama Canal to the Panamanian government, as stipulated in the TorrijosâÂÂCarter Treaties of 1977.
Ongoing
Births
January
- January 1 – Diamond White, singer and actress
- January 5
- Miguel Morales, rapper
- Marc Yu, musician
- January 6 – Polo G, rapper
- January 7 – Cayla Barnes, ice hockey player
- January 13
- Nicholas Art, actor
- Conor McDermott-Mostowy, Olympic speed skater
- January 14 – Zach Hsieh, YouTuber
- January 18
- Karan Brar, actor
- Tee Higgins, American football player
- Mateus Ward, actor
- January 19 – Jonathan Taylor, football player
- January 20 – Shannon Tavarez, actress (d. 2010)
- January 21 – Em Beihold, singer/songwriter
- January 22 – Ravyn Lenae, singer
- January 23 – Madi Davis, singer
- January 28
- Dobre Twins, YouTubers
- Preston Strother, actor
February
March
- March 2 – Caleb Lee Hutchinson, singer
- March 5
- Justin Fields, football player
- Madison Beer, singer
- Colin Schooler, football player
- March 8 – Luc Violette, Olympic curler
- March 16
- Ashley Farquharson, Olympic luger
- Bailie Key, artistic gymnast
- March 19 – Gabby Petito, murder victim (d. 2021)
- March 22 – Gavin MacIntosh, actor
- March 23 – Quando Rondo, rapper
- March 25
- Iann Dior, rapper
- Mikey Madison, actress
- March 26
- Scarlett Stitt, actress
- Quinn Sullivan, songwriter and musician
- March 28 – Megan Suri, actress
- March 31 – Sawyer Fredericks, singer/songwriter
April
- April 2 – Sophie Reynolds, actress
- April 4 – Keely Cashman, Olympic Alpine ski racer
- April 6 – Kwesi Boakye, actor
- April 8 – Ty Panitz, actor
- April 9 – Lil Nas X, rapper and singer/songwriter
- April 16 – Lisette Olivera, actress
- April 18 – Mallory Beach, notable victim (died 2019)
- April 20 – Carly Rose Sonenclar, actress and singer/songwriter
- April 23
- Claud, singer/songwriter
- Grace Zumwinkle, ice hockey player
- April 29 – Morgan Turner, actress
May
- May 1
- YNW Melly, American rapper
- Tiffany Stratton, professional wrestler
- May 3 – Rory Staunton, notable victim (d. 2012)
- May 4 – Tyler Senerchia, wrestler
- May 5
- Nathan Chen, figure skater
- Bobby Coleman, actor
- May 7 – Anna Gibson, Olympic skier
- May 10 – Michael Gandolfini, actor
- May 11
- Sabrina Carpenter, actress
- Madison Lintz, actress
- Zach Stoppelmoor, Olympic speed skater
- May 18 – Teo Halm, actor
- May 22 – Camren Bicondova, actress
- May 23
- Trinidad Cardona, musician
- James Charles, makeup artist
- May 24
- Aerin Frankel, ice hockey player
- Charlie Plummer, actor
- Ali Kabbani, gamer better known as Myth
- Anthony Quintal, internet personality
- May 25 – Brec Bassinger, actress
- May 26 – Elle Chapman, actress
- May 27 – Lily-Rose Depp, actress and model
- May 28 – Cameron Boyce, actor (d. 2019)
- May 29 – Ella Emhoff, fashion designer
- May 30 – Sean Giambrone, actor and voice actor
- May 31 – Emily Evan Rae, actress
June
- June 1 – Technoblade, internet personality (d. 2022)
- June 2 – Madison Leisle, actress
- June 9 – Zane Smith, stock car racing driver
- June 11
- Katelyn Nacon, actress
- Saxon Sharbino, actress
- June 13 – Alexis Roland, snowboarder
- June 17 – Frances Forever, singer/songwriter
- June 18
- Trippie Redd, rapper
- Willie Spence, singer (d. 2022)
- June 20
- Cory Juneau, skateboarder
- Kayla Maisonet, actress
- June 22 – Cam Akers, football player
- June 26 – Harley Quinn Smith, actress
- June 27 – Chandler Riggs, actor
July
August
- August 4 – Kelly Gould, actress
- August 7 – Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, hurdler and sprinter, Olympic champion (2020)
- August 9 – Ariana Guido, actress
- August 10 – Ja Morant, basketball player
- August 11 – Khyree Jackson, football player (d. 2024)
- August 12 – Dream, Minecraft-themed YouTuber
- August 13 – Eli Brown, actor
- August 14
- Bryce Hall, social media influencer
- Alison Thornton, actress
- August 16 – Karen Chen, figure skater
- August 19
- Ethan Cutkosky, actor
- Salem Ilese, musician
- Tristan Lake Leabu, actor
- August 21 – Maxim Knight, actor
- August 22 – Ricardo Hurtado, actor and singer
- August 25 – Sophie Cates, singer/songwriter
- August 26 – Sol Ruca, wrestler
September
- September 1 – Jadagrace, actress, singer, and dancer
- September 2 – Gavin Casalegno, actor
- September 7
- Gracie Abrams, singer/songwriter
- Cameron Ocasio, actor
- September 13 – Lexie Hull, basketball player
- September 14
- Emma Kenney, actress
- Tom Schaar, skateboarder
- September 15 – Jaren Jackson Jr., basketball player
- September 16
- Clayton DeClemente, Olympic speed skater
- Brady Tkachuk, ice hockey player
- September 21
- Brennan LaBrie, journalist
- Lizzy McAlpine, singer
- September 22 – Tallan Latz, guitarist
- September 28 – Kayla Day, tennis player
October
November
December
Full date unknown
Deaths
January
- January 4 â Iron Eyes Cody, Italian-American actor (b. 1904)
- January 5 â Paul Zoll, American cardiologist (b. 1911)
- January 12 â Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (b. 1914)
- January 18 â Sarah Louise Delany, American author and educator (b. 1889)
- January 21
- Charles Brown, American singer and pianist (b. 1922)
- Susan Strasberg, American actress (b. 1938)
- January 23 â John Osteen, American televangelist (b. 1921)
- January 25
- Sarah Louise Delany, educator and civil rights activist (b. 1889)
- Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)
- January 29 â Lili St. Cyr, burlesque and stripper (b. 1917)
- January 30 â Huntz Hall, actor (b. 1920)
- January 31 â Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (b. 1929)
February
- February 1 â Paul Mellon, American philanthropist (b. 1907)
- February 6 â Jimmy Roberts, American singer (b. 1924)
- February 7 â Bobby Troup, American actor, jazz pianist, singer and songwriter (b. 1918)
- February 11 â Jaki Byard, American jazz musician (b. 1922)
- February 14
- Buddy Knox, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
- John Ehrlichman, American Watergate scandal figure (b. 1925)
- February 15
- Big L, American rapper (b. 1974)
- Henry Way Kendall, American physicist (b. 1926)
- February 16 â Michael Larson, Press Your Luck contestant (b. 1949)
- February 18
- Andreas Feininger, French-born American photographer (b. 1906)
- Noam Pitlik, American actor and director (b. 1932)
- February 20 â Gene Siskel, American film critic (b. 1946)
- February 21 â Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist (b. 1918)
- February 22 â William Bronk, American poet (b. 1918)
- February 23 â The Renegade, American wrestler (b. 1965)
- February 24
- Andre Dubus, American short-story writer (b. 1936)
- Virginia Foster Durr, American civil rights activist (b. 1903)
- February 25 â Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist (b. 1912)
- February 28 â Bill Talbert, American tennis player (b. 1918)
March
- March 1 â Ann Corio, American dancer and actress (b. 1909)
- March 3 â Jackson C. Frank, American folk musician (b. 1943)
- March 4
- Harry Blackmun, American judge (b. 1908)
- Del Close, American actor, writer, and teacher (b. 1934)
- Hawley Pratt, American film director, animator and illustrator (b. 1911)
- March 5 â Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)
- March 7
- Sidney Gottlieb, American intelligence official (b. 1918)
- Stanley Kubrick, American film director and producer (b. 1928)
- March 8
- Peggy Cass, American actress and comedian (b. 1924)
- Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player, advertising spokesman (b. 1914)
- March 12 â Yehudi Menuhin, American violinist (b. 1916)
- March 13
- Lee Falk, American writer, theater director, and producer (b. 1911)
- Garson Kanin, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1912)
- March 17
- Ernest Gold, Austrian-born American composer (b. 1921)
- Herbert E. Grier, American electrical engineer (b. 1911)
- March 22 â David Strickland, American actor (b. 1969)
- March 25 â Cal Ripken Sr., American baseball coach and manager (b. 1935)
- March 26 â David Holliday, American actor (b. 1937)
- March 29 â Joe Williams, American singer (b. 1918)
- March 30 â Terry Wilson, American actor (b. 1923)
April
- April 4
- Faith Domergue, American actress (b. 1924)
- Early Wynn, American baseball player (b. 1920)
- April 10 â Jean Vander Pyl, American television actress (b. 1919)
- April 12 â Boxcar Willie, American country music singer (b. 1931)
- April 14
- Ellen Corby, American actress (b. 1911)
- Anthony Newley, English actor singer, and composer (b. 1931)
- April 15 â Roy Chiao, Chinese actor (b. 1927)
- April 16 â Skip Spence, Canadian-born American singer and songwriter (b. 1946)
- April 20
- Cassie Bernall, American student (b. 1981)
- Eric Harris, American mass murderer (b. 1981)
- Dylan Klebold, American mass murderer (b. 1981)
- Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
- Rachel Scott, American student (b. 1981)
- April 21 â Charles "Buddy" Rogers, American silent film actor (b. 1904)
- April 22 â Bert Remsen, American actor (b. 1925)
- April 25
- Herman Miller, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1919)
- Roger Troutman, American funk musician (b. 1951)
- April 27 â Al Hirt, American trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1922)
- April 28
- Rory Calhoun, American television and film actor (b. 1922)
- Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist (b. 1921)
May
- May 8 â Dana Plato, American actress (b. 1964)
- May 10 â Shel Silverstein, American poet, singer-songwriter, cartoonist, screenwriter, and author of children's books (b. 1930)
- May 13 â Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
- May 17 â Henry Jones, American actor (b. 1912)
- May 18 â Betty Robinson, American athlete (b. 1911)
- May 19 â Candy Candido, American voice actor (b. 1913)
- May 23
- Owen Hart, Canadian wrestler (b. 1965)
- John T. Hayward, American admiral (b. 1908)
- May 26 â Waldo Semon, American inventor (b. 1898)
- May 31 â Charles Pierce, American impressionist (b. 1926)
June
- June 3 â Charlene Pryer, American professional baseball player (b. 1921)
- June 5 â Mel Tormé, American singer (b. 1925)
- June 9 â Andrew L. Stone, American screenwriter, director and producer (b. 1902)
- June 11 â DeForest Kelley, American actor (b. 1920)
- June 19 â Paul Montgomery, American entrepreneur and inventor (b. 1960)
- June 25 â Fred Trump, American real estate developer, father of Donald Trump (b. 1905)
- June 27
- Isaac C. Kidd, Jr., American admiral (b. 1919)
- Marion Motley, American football player (b. 1920)
- June 29 â Allan Carr, American producer (b. 1937)
July
- July 1
- Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-American film director (b. 1908)
- Forrest Mars Sr., businessman and director of Mars Inc. (b. 1904)
- Guy Mitchell, American singer (b. 1927)
- Sylvia Sidney, American actress (b. 1910)
- July 2 â Mario Puzo, American author (b. 1920)
- July 3 â Mark Sandman, American rock musician and artist (b. 1952)
- July 6
- Carl Gunter Jr., American farmer and politician (b. 1938)
- Gary M. Heidnik, American killer, kidnapper, and rapist (b. 1943)
- July 7 â Julie Campbell Tatham, American writer (b. 1908)
- July 8 â Pete Conrad, American astronaut, naval aviator, and aeronautical engineer (b. 1930)
- July 9 â James Farmer, American civil rights leader (b. 1920)
- July 11 â Helen Forrest, American jazz singer (b. 1917)
- July 16
- John F. Kennedy Jr., American journalist and lawyer (b. 1960)
- Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American actress and model (b. 1966)
- July 20 â Sandra Gould, American actress (b. 1916)
- July 22 â Gar Samuelson, American drummer (b. 1958)
- July 29 â Anita Carter, American singer (b. 1933)
August
- August 2 â Willie Morris, American writer (b. 1934)
- August 3
- Marion O. McKinney Jr., American aerospace scientist (b. 1921)
- Leroy Vinnegar, American musician (b. 1928)
- August 4 â Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1913)
- August 7 â John Van Ryn, American tennis player (b. 1905)
- August 10 â Anthony Stanislas Radziwill, American television executive and filmmaker (b. 1959)
- August 14
- Lane Kirkland, American union leader (b. 1922)
- Philip Klutznick, American administrator, secretary of commerce (b. 1907)
- Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (b. 1918)
- August 23 â Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b. 1926)
- August 24 â Mary Jane Croft, American radio and television actress (b. 1916)
September
October
- October 1 â Glen Foster, American Olympic sailor (b. 1930)
- October 2
- Lee Lozano, American artist (b. 1930)
- Danny Mayo, American songwriter (b. 1950)
- October 3 â Paul Burris, American baseball player (b. 1923)
- October 4 â Art Farmer, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1928)
- October 5 â Alex Lowe, American mountaineer (b. 1958)
- October 6 â Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler and announcer (b. 1937)
- October 7
- David A. Huffman, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
- Helen Vinson, American actress (b. 1907)
- October 8 â John McLendon, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
- October 9 â Milt Jackson, American musician (b. 1923)
- October 10 â George Forrest, American writer (b. 1915)
- October 12 â Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (b. 1936)
- October 16 â Jean Shepherd, writer and personality (b. 1921)
- October 19 â James C. Murray, American politician (b. 1917)
- October 24 â John Chafee, American politician (b. 1922)
- October 25 â Payne Stewart, American golfer (b. 1957)
- October 26
- Hoyt Axton, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1938)
- Abraham Polonsky, American screenwriter and director (b. 1910)
- October 27
- Frank De Vol, American arranger, composer, and actor (b. 1911)
- Robert Mills, American physicist (b. 1927)
- October 29 â Tom Dickinson, American football player (b. 1897)
November
- November 1
- Theodore Hall, American physicist and spy (b. 1925)
- Walter Payton, American football player (b. 1954)
- November 4 â Daisy Bates, American civil rights activist, publisher, journalist, and lecturer (b. 1914)
- November 9 â Mabel King, American actress and singer (b. 1932)
- November 11 â Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (b. 1961)
- November 15 â Gene Levitt, American television writer, producer, and director (b. 1920)
- November 16 â Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1928)
- November 18
- Paul Bowles, American novelist (b. 1910)
- Horst P. Horst, American photographer (b. 1906)
- Doug Sahm, American musician (b. 1941)
- November 21 â Ralph Foody, American actor (b. 1928)
- November 29 â Gene Rayburn, American television personality (b. 1917)
December
- December 2
- Joey Adams, American comedian (b. 1911)
- Charlie Byrd, American jazz musician and classical guitarist (b. 1925)
- December 3
- John Archer, American actor (b. 1915)
- Scatman John, American musician, singer, and songwriter (b. 1942)
- Madeline Kahn, American actress and singer (b. 1942)
- December 4 â Rose Bird, American activist and judge (b. 1936)
- December 10
- Rick Danko, Canadian musician (b. 1943)
- Shirley Hemphill, American comedian and actress (b. 1947)
- December 12
- Paul Cadmus, American artist (b. 1904)
- Joseph Heller, American novelist (b. 1923)
- December 17
- Rex Allen, American actor, singer, and songwriter (b. 1920)
- Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943)
- December 20
- Irving Rapper, American film director (b. 1898)
- Hank Snow, Canadian-American country musician (b. 1914)
- December 23 â John P. Davies, American diplomat (b. 1908)
- December 26 â Curtis Mayfield, American musician and composer (b. 1942)
- December 27 â Leonard Goldenson, American television executive (b. 1905)
- December 28 â Clayton Moore, American actor (b. 1914)
- December 30 â Sarah Knauss, American supercentenarian, verified oldest person in the world (b. 1880)
- December 31 â Elliot Richardson, American politician and lawyer (b. 1920)
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